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UNIVERSAL   PEACE 

When  Women  Will  Permit 


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PETER  BOANO 

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PREFACE 

Either  you  must  see  the  end  of  wars  yourself  or  you  must 
not.  Waiting  for  each  other  to  step  forward  first  may  be 
your  trouble.  Woulds  and  shoulds  don't  go.  Either  wars 
must  stop  or  they  must  go  on. 

You  can  ignore  the  possibility  of  ending  wars  and,  as  an 
excuse,  you  can  pretend  to  be  so  busy. in  your  usual  theories 
or  work  as  to  have  no  time  to  help  end  wars,  but  you  can't 
state  that  the  end  of  wars  is  an  impossibility  or  a  dream  now- 
adays, because  the  work  of  ending  wars  is  not  more  difficult 
than  calling  on  a  friend  or  going  to  a  meeting,  nor  will  it 
cost  more. 

These  pages  are  written  especially  to  please  both  the  mili- 
tarists and  the  anti-militarists ;  to  settle  the  differences  among 
the  former  as  well  as  among  the  latter,  and  join  both  sides  as 
one.  The  plan  to  end  wars  contained  herein  shows  a  way  in 
which  women  can  solve  the  problem ;  you  know  the  words, 
"What  men  can't  do,  women  might."  If  you  could  only  under- 
stand a  little  what  it  means  to  end  wars,  you  cannot  call  it 
nonsense  to  try  with  women,  even  if  they  fail. 

At  these  times  of  trials,  I  only  know  two  classes  of  people ; 
for  and  against.  People  who  fail  to  help  end  wars,  through 
indifference,  arguments,  or  excuses,  whether  they  are  mili- 
tarists or  under  the  guise  of  peace  makers,  and  from  the  high- 
est opponents  down  to  those  who  merely  keep  their  mouths 
shut,  I  account  them  all  fighting  against  ending  wars ;  and 
people  who  really  act  on  ending  wars,  no  matter  of  which 
rank  they  belong,  and  from  the  biggest  leaders  down  to  those 
who  say  something  about  it,  I  account  them  all  for  peace. 

I  can't  find  any  discomfort  in  saying  that  people  choose 
to  wish  and  pray  God  to  end  wars  Himself  instead  of  doing  it 


themselves,  and  that  militarists  and  press  help  them  along  as 
a  matter  of  course.  I  give  reply:  The  latter  are  chained 
down  just  like  men  on  a  firing  line  that  can't  break  loose,  even 
though  they  know  it  is  all  unjust — the  first  that  makes  a  move 
is  humiliated  or  must  sell  out — of  course,  you  already  know 
about  it,  for  it  has  already  happened.  I  have  read  many  edi- 
torials and  articles  by  many  editors  and  militarists  who  clearly 
state  my  view  themselves,  that  they  are  very  well  aware  of  a 
better  standing  to  themselves  at  wars  end,  very  willing  to  do 
anything  to  help  save  the  stricken  humanity,  and  all  convinced 
that  the  governments  will  still  rule  the  people  and  capital 
(clean  business)  a  hundred  fold  better  with  a  police  force  than 
with  militarism — governments  business-like,  protective,  in  the 
real  sense  of  the  word.  That  is,  militarists  and  press  deceive 
the  people  only  as  a  means  to  conceal  their  inability  of  settling 
the  issue  among  themselves  and  end  wars.  In  spite  of  that,  I 
appeal  only  to  the  intelligence  of  some  women  to  settle  the 
issue,  and  who  will  benefit  less  than  others  by  the  end  of 
wars,  and  therefore,  least  inclined  to  do  the  work.  However, 
there  are  no  reasons  why  others  should  not  back  them  up,  or 
take  the  matter  over  themselves  if  they  fail. 

Patriotism,  militarists,  military  aspirants,  military  titles, 
racial  hatred,  war  or  armed  peace  profits,  are  not  causes  of 
the  war,  nor  in  the  least.  They  are  products/  If  they  are  not 
causes  of  the  war,  it  follows  that  wars  cannot  end  by  striking 
at  them.  Only  when  women  will  love  honor-spotless  man  all 
such  products  will  vanish — only  then  man  shall  not  be  found 
wanting.  All  blood  money  and  military  fame  don't  count; 
they  can't  earn  an  inch  of  real  love  from  any  woman.  Also, 
in  almost  every  case  it  will  be  discovered  that  gifts,  enter- 
tainments and  joy  rides  did  win  her  out;  and  the  man,  in  spite 
of  his  money  or  title,  did  nothing  of  his  real  self;  acted  like  a 
hopeless  cheat,  and  is  guilty  'of  letting  George  do  it  in  his 
stead.  Will  responsible  women  love  responsible  men  also  at 


wars  end?  That's  the  doirbt  that  still  keeps  wars  from  stop- 
ping. Will  they?  As  a  matter  of  course ;  and  real  love  instead 
of  being  bought.  This  does  not  mean  that  responsible  men  of 
the  present  will  be  discharged  at  wars  end ;  not  at  all.  They 
will  have  even  more  responsibility  and  really  honorable,  of 
course,  in  other  lines  than  the  present.  But  the  following  is 
the  argument  in  question : 

If  your  love  for  your  man  is  just  for  his  military  title  or, 
corrupt  wealth,  you  are  bought  up,  you  are  unhappy,  in  spite 
of  your  denials.  He  strived  to  earn  what  he  has  to  entice  you. 
Were  you  inclined  to  be  won  out  honestly,  he  would  not  re- 
sort to  anything  but  honesty.  If  man  desires  true  love  only,  as 
science  declares,  it  follows  that  he  earned  what  he  has  against 
his  wish.  Now,  that  is  unfair  dealing,  to  you,  to  him  and  to 
us.  The  manner  in  which  we  will  undertake  to  free  you,  him 
and  ourselves  will  depend  on  the  stand  you  make.  If,  on  the 
other  hand,  you  claim  your  love  for  your  man  is  real,  proof 
of  such  declaration  is  just  what  we  must  have;  help  us  out  by 
helping  yourself;  for  the  time  to  rely  on  hopes  is  over. 

The  problem  is  to  end  wars;  and  something  more  than 
usual  I  must  say,  with  the  hope  to  produce  some  leaders  who 
can  corner  up  the  necessary  number  of  people  and  stir  them 
into  action.  So  the  reader  is  asked  to  consider  well  when  some 
sentences  or  words  seem  to  be  not  in  accordance  with  the 
teaching  of  our  present  school. 

The  end  of  wars  will  be  a  reality  only  when  a  man  can  give 
out  a  plan  that  gives  no  chances  to  his  opponents  from  mis- 
representing or  repressing  it ;  and  if  I  have  also  failed,  just  like 
many  others  have  failed,  my  opponents  will  be  once  more  the 
victors,. and  you  should  not  be  surprised  about  it. 

If  you'  are  not  interested  to  know  how  women  can  cause 
the  military  officers  to. strike,  I  hope  you  may  find  some  en- 
tertainment in  pages  other  than  where  the  plan  is. 

PETER  BOANO. 


UNIVERSAL   PEACE 


The  Universal  Drama 

War  excitement  alone  overstirs  the  blood  and  it  acts  like 
a  poison.  It  is  not  people's  favorite  excitement  on  account 
of  it  being1  the  most  expensive,  'but  because  it  is  the  most 
poisonous.  And  so  long  as  there  are  armaments  to  manu- 
facture it,  people  will  not  agree  on  any  substitute.  They  make 
believe  that  preparation  against  each  other  is  necessary,  so 
that  they  can  have  a  dope  when  they  seem  to  sleep.  When 
there  is  war,  they  want  peace,  because  the  dose  is  too  heavy ; 
but  when  there  is  peace,  they  can't  stand  it  for  long.  So  arma- 
ments are  a  irrenace  also  to  one's  mind,  and  to  the  highly  edu- 
cated ones  too — always  generally  speaking. 

What  is  deplorable  is  that  beastly  courage  affects  most  the 
mind  of  women.  A  weak  man,  just  as  a  nation,  can't  fight  in 
the  manner  of  the  strong,  and  women  call  him  coward,  and 
wouldn't  think  for  a  moment  at  the  more  pitiful  spectacle  of 
their  heroes  meeting  a  greater  force  like  the  untrained  or  weak 
man  did.  Thus,  if  Germany  wins,  it  would  be  due  to  over- 
confidence  or  military  blunders  of  the  allied  general  staff, 
which  is  something  that  can  happen  on  the  other  side  as  well, 
and  so  it  wouldn't  be  a  Teutonic  victory;  and  if  the  allies  win, 
it  would  be  due  to  superiority,  and  so  it  cannot  be  a  victory; 
and  people  or  soldiers  on  either  side  are  not  responsible  for 
either  victory  or  defeat,  because  it  depends  on  circumstances, 
superiority  in  number  or  training,  which  one  or  more  nations 
are  in  a  better  position  for  it,  due  to  the  form  of  government, 
geographical  position,  or  else. 


There  are  no  cowards.  An  unfortunate  at  the  hands  of  the 
highly  intelligent  bureaucrats,  or  one  born  with  a  softer  con- 
stitution, cannot  make  a  good  show  for  some  people  wha  don't 
understand,  but  much  more  of  a  show  and  of  heroism  for  some 
people  who  do  understand.  However,  it  is  the  firing  line  itself 
that  turns  people  of  good  will  into  beasts;  if  you  object  as  to 
their  conduct,  they  might  as  well  answer :  if  you  don't  like  our 
ways,  don't  keep  us  on  a  firing  line  while  you  comfortably  get 
the  drug  of  our  own  make.  The  funniest  part  of  it  is,  that 
these  things  are  so  well  reversed  in  military  and  diplomatic 
circles,  where  there  are  high  titles,  just  as  if  it  were  in  the  low- 
est rank.  As  it  has  always  been,  nations  alter  international 
laws  during  warfare  when  there  is  advantage  out  of  it,  or  even 
only  at  the  belief  that  there  will  be  a  least  advantage,  and 
these  well  educated  people  show  so  much  surprise  whenever 
this  happens,  as  if  it  were  the  first  time. 

If  armaments  turn  education  useless,  is  education  neces- 
sary to  end  wars?  This  may  not  be  agreeable  to  statesmen, 
who  had  the  most  of  university,  and  who  call  on  militarism 
to  settle  their  differences.  Now,  because  armaments  affect 
the  minds  of  diplomats  also,  armaments  are  to  be  destroyed 
first.  How?  A  trick,  something  that  works  indirectly  only. 
You  will  see  one  right  here,  but  I've  got  to  write  another  para- 
graph before  so  that  I  can  have  a  chance  to  address  women. 

Fortifying  each  others'  defenses  against  each  other,  justi- 
fying each  other  for  going1  to  war,  contending  with  each  other 
for  disregarding  rules  of  warfare,  exciting  outbreaks  of  war, 
exciting  rumors  of  peace,  hating  the  militarists,  disagreement 
among  diplomats,  wishing  or  praying  for  peace,  hating  the 
other  people,  cheering  the  victors,  being  sorry  at  war,  pitying 
the  defeated,  are  all  feature  parts  of  the  Universal  Drama. 
Curiously  enough,  if  you  have  already  lost  confidence  on  the 
play,  my  dear  ladies,  you  will  have  to  take  the  matter  over 
yourselves ;  but  whenever  will  be  the  time  when  you  grow  tired 
of  the  Universal  Drama  you  must  have  a  plan,  and,  if  you  have 
not  one  already  of  your  own,  permit  me  to  show  you  mine. 

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The  Plan 

1.  Prepare  headquarters  in  every  possible  city  as  a  means 
to  get  yourselves  together,  and  also  for  receiving  contribu- 
tions for  the  campaign. 

2.  Mothers  only  for  this:  after  this  war  is  over,  communi- 
cate or  call  on  women  related  to  army  and  navy  officers,  in- 
cluding their  sweethearts,  with  the  object  that  they  join  in 
with  you,  and  they  entrusted  to  cause  the  officers  to  resign 
their  posts.     Understand   that   they  cannot   get  together  by 
themselves  or  before  you,  nor  they  can  cause  the  officers  to 
resign  without  such  headquarters  to  help  at  correspondence, 
planning  and  so  on.     I  could  tell  otherwise  and  directly  to 
women  related  to  officers  were  it  possible  for  them  to  do  it 
alone ;  but  in  this  way  all  obstacles  are  removed.     Also,  all 
the  mothers  on  earth  are  not  required  to  carry  out  this  idea, 
about  one  out  of  every  thousand  will  suffice. 

3.  Don't  speak  nor  communicate  to  diplomats  or  officers 
yourselves,  not  a  word ;  the  proposition  here  is  strictly  to  cause 
the  officers  to  resign  through  their  women,  and,  if  not  through- 
out the  world,  at  least  in  civilized  countries  as  much  as  pos- 
sible; because,  you  know,  when  civilized  nations  agree,  the 
uncivilized  ones  can  do  nothing  but  surrender.    After  all,  dip- 
lomats know  how  to  settle  things  aright  better  than  any  other 
class  of  people.     You  understand  that  the  crowding  of  them 
with  so  many  opinions  by  so  many  outsiders  it  arouses  their 
jealousy,  just  like  you,  they  ridicule  you  and  make  you  rid- 
icule each  other,  except  that  they  can  show  you  the  reverse, 
and,  "very  respectfully."    That  is,  if  you  show  them  the  hor- 
rors of  wars  and  plans  to  stop  them,  it  doesn't  amount  to  any- 
thing.   Some  diplomats  will  not  agree  on  some  points  of  your 
plan  or  plans  for  some  reasons,  some  will  not  agree  on  cer- 
tain other  points  for  some  other  reasons,  some  may  not  even 
show  up,  and  thus  you  would  be  nothing  but  charlatans  of  the 
Universal  Drama. 

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4.  Force  and  unkindness  are  things  to  be  absolutely  ban- 
ished under  any  circumstances  from  the  start  to  finish ;  be- 
cause educated  and  well-to-do  women  are  in  a  better  standing 
for  this  rule,  they  only  should  execute  this  plan. 

5.  The    head    of   each    headquarters    should    be    selected 
among   women   of   imperative   actions   that   can    enforce    the 
rules. 

6.  The  Grand  Headquarters  may  be  established  either  at 
Washington  or  at  the  Hague;  and  if  delay  is  to  be  avoided,  I 
suggest  the  former  locality,  with  an  American  woman  as  its 
president,  and  represented  by  only  one  woman,  with  assist- 
ants, of  each  nation. 

7.  This,  being  your  greatest  duty  for  all  times,  your  serv- 
ices should  be  lent  free  of  charge. 

8.  In  order  to  avoid  dispute  as  to  the  use  of  the  money 
from  contributions,  it  is  best  that,  aside  of  rental  and  general 
correspondence  expenses,  the  fund  remaining,  if  any,  should 
be  spent  exclusively  for  advertising  your  rights — the  ways  of 
distribution  and  purpose  of  which  is  to  be  resolved  by  the 
Grand  Headquarters. 

9.  The  bookkeepers'  and  treasurers'  doings  must  be  pub- 
lic.   This,  you  know,  is  to  avoid  anxiety  to  somebody. 

10.  Officers  must  not  resign  before  a  given  date,  prefer- 
ably not  before  this  war  is  over ;  and  they  should  not  pick  up 
arms  or  command  again  unless  it  is  for  the  purpose  of  settlhig 
the  question  of  the  uncivilized  nations  and  savage  tribes  by 
a  united  move  of  all  the  civilized  nations,  or  the  majority  of 
them,  combined,  should  that  be  necessary. 

As  soon  as  you  put  into  action  the  above  ten  rules,  the 
dangerous  militarists  will  then  realize  that  the  cause  of  their 
hopes  is  exhausted — that  women  have  changed  their  minds, 
somehow  they  will  also  love  those  men  just  the  same  after 
they  may  quit  their  honorable  position  of  leading  and  teach- 
ing men  the  art  of  lawful  murder — that  boundary  lines  are  to 

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be  drawn  without  war  for  the  first  time  to  suit  all  the  nations 
on  earth  ;  that  countries  unarmed  need  not  be  depended  for 
fear  of  invasions  and  that  an  international  law  backed  by  a 
police  force  will  suffice.  It  is  also  the  best  way  to  shorten  the 
duration  of  the  European  war,  of  course,  if  you  start  out  early, 
if  you  do  it  instead  of  wishing  it. 

Social  pride,  the  sense  of  supremacy,  and  jealousy,  are 
everywhere:  except  that  in  militaryland  they  end  in  wars. 
And  these  are  ties  that  the  militarists  themselves  can't  break 
even  if  they  try.  And  how  can  these  ties  destroy  by  them- 
selves if  militarism  is  the  father  of  them?  Surely  there  are 
military  officers  that  would  like  to  be  free,  but  whether  these 
are  in  the  majority  it  doesn't  matter.  The  obstinate  ones  will 
yield  and  become  friends  whenever  you  women  want  it. 

As  a  Matter  of  Course 

There  is  a  big  chance.  The  end  of  the  European  nonsense 
will  leave  the  people  so  sick  of  revenge  that  any  proposition 
of  preventing  the  start  of  all  next  wars  will  get  them  captives ; 
and  it  is  a  big  chance  for  peace  advocates  too.  Aside  of  the 
peace  movement  growing  in  Europe,  we  have  already  many 
well  organized  peace  societies,  suffrage  parties,  with  a  large 
list  of  big  war  foes,  in  the  United  States. 

The  dream  of  some  people  who  have  felt  most  the  grip  of 
bureaucracy — of  exterminating  war  chiefs  with  their  followers 
through  a  rebellion  or  revolution,  is  likely  to  come  true  if  the 
slaughter  in  Europe  goes  the  limits;  but  it  is  a  safer  bet  that 
militarism  will  be  more  rampant  after  this  war,  because  such 
action  can  only  be  partial,  and  therefore  easily  suppressed 
again.  Militarists  know  how  to  save  themselves;  they  cease 
hostilities  indefinitely  before  the  people  have  a  chance  to  rebel 
and  destroy  them.  However,  if  the  end  of  wars  happens  to  be 
as  the  result  of  this  proposition,  or  as  the  result  of  a  likewise 
plan  by  somebody  else,  that  is,  causing  it  to  happen  in  a 

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friendly  manner,  making  foes  to  become  friends  in  spite  of 
themselves,  settling  all  the  differences  with  good  will,  it  would 
be  entirely  another  story ;  it  would  mean  also  no  loss  to  any 
properties,  industries,  private  business,  titles,  whether  they 
are  royal,  military,  or  else.  The  change  will  only  be  from 
stopping  to  earn  profits  and  honor  by  killing,  to  earning  it  hon- 
estly. Even  the  factories  and  foundries  of  war  stuff  makers 
wouldn't  lose,  because  the  demand  for  new  things  to  replace 
the  destructive  ones  will  be  great ;  governments  will  find  it 
easy  matter  to  concede  some  privileges  to  these  and  other  in- 
dustries affected  by  disarmament,  remodel  them  for  new  ships 
and  new  tools — and  all  this  wouldn't  be  exactly  at  the  expense 
of  the  common  people,  but  necessary  for  both.  However,  cer- 
tain things  don't  belong  to  my  pen.  All  there  is  to  know  is 
that  the  end  of  wars  will  bring  about  a  great  educational  and 
reconstructive  campaign,  and  prosperity  everywhere,  with  the 
most  surprising  speed,  and  that  the  change  in  certain  lines  of 
industries  will  be  from  a  blood  money  making  to  a  non-blood 
money  enterprise.  You  can't  call  it  a  loss,  the  suppression  of 
corrupt  business,  but  a  gain  for  all  concerned,  and  that  will 
be  as  a  matter  of  course  at  wars  end. 

Lawmakers  can't  do  otherwise  so  long  as  the  nations  are 
armed;  in  their  business  they  are  just  as  tied  down  as  the  poor 
man  is.  Because  some  people  reap  huge  war  profits,  which 
the  nations  are  bound  to  let  go  on  account  of  wanting  to  win 
"at  all  costs,"  lawmakers  are  obliged  to  protect  also  other 
capitalists  and  industries,  and  so  it  affects  all.  Stop  wars.  And 
people's  representatives  will  then  have  lots  of  time  and  oppor- 
tunity to  make  good.  When  militarism  is  dead,  how  can  dip- 
lomats call  on  militarism  to  settle  their  differences?  Will  not 
they  then  settle  their  own  disputes  by  themselves  if  there  is 
just  not  another  alternative  left? 

Men,  armed,  will  fire  at  each  other  at  the  least  provoca- 
tion or  whenever  one  or  the  other  believes  to  win ;  because 
reason,  suppose,  may  take  only  twenty-four  hours  to  settle  a 

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dispute  and  prevent  a  slaughter  of  years,  as  it  is  now  in 
Europe,  but  armaments  strike  sometimes  before  the  twenty- 
fourth  hour — turn  reason  useless.  Therefore,  to  hold  statesmen 
responsible  for  their  failure  of  settling  the  disputes  without 
war,  is  all  nonsense;  because  it  is  clear  that  trying  to  prevent 
war  without  the  nations  disarmed  is,  say,  just  as  foolish  as 
trying  to  make  a  hole  in  the  water.  Statesmen  could  not  show 
their  folly  more  clearly  than  in  this  war.  Austria  had  reasons 
to  call  the  Serbs  into  accounts :  the  proud  Serbians  had  rea- 
sons to  resist ;  Russia  had  reasons  to  uphold  her  honor  in 
helping  Serbia;  Germany  had  reasons  to  stand  by  her  ally; 
France  had  reasons  for  a  revenge;  England  had  reasons  to 
protect  Belgium ;  Italy  had  reasons  to  break  her  alliance  with 
the  Central  Powers  and  fight  against.  There  are  a  hundred 
more  reasons,  of  which  the  opponents  claim  to  have  more  than 
each  other;  all  of  them  just  necessary  to  turn  Europe  into  a 
carnage;  and  all  the  reasons  of  keeping  their  nations  out  of 
a  carnage,  they  say,  are  from  people  whose  heads  need  some 
medical  advice,  or  jail  treatment,  and  the  latter  is  not  a  dream. 

Xow,  according  to  the  fact  that  armaments  turn  all  reasons 
of  keeping  out  war  unreasonable,  nobody  can  deny  this :  men 
unarmed  will  speedily  become  friends;  they  cannot  again  be 
foes,  because  the  aggressive  tools  (cause)  are  removed,  and 
they  will  be  surprised  of  how  easy  it  is  to  settle  their  dis- 
putes amicably. 

The  same  will  be  with  nations ;  when  extreme  militarists 
and  religious  fanatics  are  deprived  of  their  armed  support, 
people  will  then  gain  freedom  of  education  and  cannot  hate 
each  other  again,  no  matter  the  difference  in  race  and  religion. 
And,  only  then,  schools  can  be  easily  reformed;  news  agencies 
will  learn  how  to  commercialize  some  substitutes  for  war  ex- 
citement, and  a  little  change  on  the  program  of  certain  publica- 
tions will  be  all  to  satisfy  the  need  of  the  readers,  who  will  get 
also  more  satisfaction  out  of  good  news  and  more  time  to 
read  some. 

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Man's  resistance  surpasses  imagination ;  it  takes  years  of 
sin  and  of  discomfort  to  kill  him  ;  unless  he  can  give  vent  to  his 
unlimited  power  he  can't  keep  away  from  Satan ;  either  he 
must  have  one,  Satan,  to  suppress,  or  the  other  spiritual  free- 
dom, to  put  into  use,  his  strength. 

Dissipation  and  vice  alone,  like  there  was  in  Paris  and  Lon- 
don in  times  of  peace,  justifies  this  war,  or  any  war.  It  is 
much  better  to  force  the  people  on  a  firing  line  and  empty 
their  purse  in  the  war  basket  than  to  let  them  in  material  free- 
dom. A  death  on  a  firing  line  cannot  be  more  painful  than 
a  long  one  through  years  of  dissipation  or  vice;  and  people 
who  suffer  at  home  on  account  of  the  war  at  least  have  a  much 
needed  lesson — I  am  sorry  for  the  helpless  old  and  young. 
Then,  so  long  as  the  nations  are  armed,  there  can't  be  new 
laws;  so  long  as  there  are  no  new  laws,  man  will  have  to 
struggle  along  in  a  world  of  competition  and  difficulties,  which 
lead  him  to  seek  consolation  in  vice  or  intoxication,  and  so 
kill  himself  little  by  little  in  that  way. 

At  the  present,  no  matter  how  well  educated  a  man  is,  the 
chances  are  that  he  will  lose  many  a  good  fight  over  his  selfish- 
ness, because  he  is  alone  or  among  the  few  to  resist  the  derision 
of  society ;  and  the  only  way  he  has  to  conceal  his  inability  is 
to  ever  steadily  misrepresent  true  Christianity  with  a  deluge 
of  arguments ;  which  also  leads  him  to  fight  against  anything 
that  may  be  to  his  advantage,  .even  though  he  knows  it  would 
get  him  out  of  the  niesh.  I  say  "ever  steadily"  because  he 
must  keep  up  with  the  course  of  evolution ;  up  to  death,  unless 
he  is  rescued  out  in  time.  He  is  being  helped  out  and  has^the 
support  of  all  the  rest  like  him,  so  that  he  can  show  "proof"  of 
what  he  says  and  of  his  works ;  and,  by  the  way,  it  goes  as  a 
means  of  self-advertisement  or  making  a  living  out  of  it. 

As  an  illustration,  think  of  two  men  belonging  to  the  same 
religion.  It  follow?  that  the  god  that  any  one  of  the  two  men 
worships  is  of  the  other  one  also.  One  happens  to  be  a  citizen 
of  the  allied  countries  and  the  other  of  the  Teutonic  allies. 

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War  breaks  out.  At  once  their  god  is  contested  between  the 
t\v«>,  one  claims  god  on  his  side  to  defeat  the  other,  and  the 
other  claims  the  same  in  the  same  time  and  with  the  same 
rights.  You  can  see  these  things  in  Europe.  You  will  also 
find  among  them  the  best  learned  men.  People  and  priests  of 
the  same  kind  pray  and  bless  the  troops  leaving  for  the  front 
in  both  sides  to  win  over  against  each  other  and  to  come  home 
victorious.  The  funniest  thing  is  to  see  the  people  of  another 
faith  whose  god  is  of  another  make  gather  around  about  and 
pray  for  the  victory  of  the  allies,  and  another  group  of  the 
same  gather  about  in  another  place  and  pray  for  the  victory 
of  the  Teutons  in  the  same  time  and  with  the  same  god. 

I  also  mean  to  say  that  school  education  frees  no  man.  The 
more  a  man  is  educated  out  oi  school,  the  harder  he  has  to 
work  to  conceal  his  identity.  If  he  dares  to  show  who  he  is, 
beware ;  he  will  be  courtmartialed  if  he  happens  to*  be  a  sol- 
dier and  stoned  or  exiled  if  he  happens  to  be  a  man  of  fame 
anywhere  else,  for  not  deceiving  the  people  like  the  man  on 
the  other  side  does.  That  is,  whether  he  is  a  king  of  the  pen 
and  speech  or  an  illiterate,  a  millionaire  or  a  penniless,  unless 
there  is  a  true  understanding  of  the  one  God  he  will  be  ever  a 
slave.  The  latter  understanding  belongs  to  the  church ;  but  it 
is  very  difficult  to  get  that  knowledge  at  these  times  because 
too  many  denominations  worship  only  Satan  in  disguise.  They 
know  that  prayers  never  did  prevent  the  start  of  a  war  nor 
stopped  any,  and  yet  they  keep  at  it;  they  even  know  that 
prayers  for  the  victory  of  one  or  both  sides  by  the  same  faith 
or  by  many,  at  the  same  time  or  not,  is  the  very  foolish  thing, 
and  yet  they  do  it — thus  you  couldn't  have  another  Satan  bet- 
ter arrayed  in  sheepskin  than  that,  nor  a  greater  foe  against 
action. 

If  you  are  a  Jew  or  an  Armenian,  you  probably  know  also 
another  chapter  of  the  story,  which  is  not  necessary  here ;  also, 
all  the^  arguments  here  are  of  not  much  value,  because  it  is 
against  the  self-impressed  theories  of  too  many  people.  Satan's 

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emissaries  can  teach  the  truth  is  lie,  and  the  lie  truth ;  they 
can  prove  it  by  showing  you  almost  all  the  population  of  the 
world  believing  in  them.  Truth  followers  are  so  crowded  out 
by  the  majority  of  the  other  that  they  are  almost  put  out  of 
sight.  And  it  seems  that  the  few  truth  teachers  are  just  there 
for  the  liars  so  that  the  latter  can  show  their  existence  and 
power  by  having  something  to  contend  with.  However,  were 
it.  not  for  aggression  in  its  various  forms  to  intimidate  and 
keep  the  people  down,  Satan  with  all  its  liars  put  together 
could  not  win  a  single  fight  against  a  lone  truth  preacher,  be- 
cause real  power  can't  be  anywhere  out  of  truth ;  whereas, 
truth  followers  can't  act  in  the  manner  of  the  liars  to  compel 
the  people  to  know  the  truth,  because  aggression  and  deceit 
is  all  error — that  explains  the  reason  why  Christianity  had  a 
slow  progress.  But  when  the  nations  are  disarmed  many  bar- 
riers will  be  smashed,  and  smashed  for  good ;  people  of  many 
denominations  will  be  set  free  to  investigate  each  others'  god 
if  or  when  at  any  time  they  feel  tired  of  their  particular  one ; 
and  in  so  doing  they  will  find  the  right  God,  hateless,  fearless, 
harmonious,  only  good ;  and  that's  the  time  when  Satan  will 
have  to  come  across,  because  instead  of  being  a  fight  against 
him  in  particular,  there  will  be  many  altogether. 

So  you  women  now  have  no  reasons  to  be  dissatisfied  with 
present  conditions,  nor  if  you  find  your  men  not  quite  manly 
as  you  insist  they  should ;  because  you  may  have  a  little  to  do 
with  it  after  you  know  you  can  help.  All  of  you  can't  under- 
stand ;  and  failure  to  act  is  failure  to  understand,  otherwise  it 
would  be  a  good  substitute  for  true  ingenuity,  which  anybody 
knows  its  name.  Then,  do  you  know  exactly  to  whom  I  am 
talking?  This  looks  like  an  insult  to  those  who  don't  under- 
stand ;  but  that  does  not  trouble  me  at  all — reading  in  haste  is 
all  the  blame.  The  most  important  to  know  is  that  I  am  talk- 
ing to  women  who  hear ;  and  if  you  are  one  among  these,  the 
next  of  importance  is  that  you  should  not  worry  what  will 
happen  when  you  make  up  your  mind.  Predictions  now  could 

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only  be  ridiculed.  Certain  new  laws  and  problems  are  impos- 
sible to  make  and  to  solve  now,  but  very  easy  then,  when  they 
must,  as  anybody  can  see  by  the  ten  rules,  the  very  possible 
resignation  of  the  officers  that  will  turn  all  other  soldiers  and 
armaments  useless,  even  if  such  movement  and  resignation  be 
not  general,  because  that  will  be  more  than  enough  for  a 
chance  to  diplomats  of  all  or  the  majority  of  the  nations  to 
convene  somewhere  of  their  own  choosing1  and  by  themselves, 
and  there  they  will  know  what  to  do  for  the  first  time.  Then 
it  will  be  easier  for  you  to  enter  into  politics ;  you  will  have 
your  own  representatives,  and  thus  you  will  be  enabled  to  put 
an  end  to  the  liquor  traffic  and  any  organized  evil  all  over  the 
world. 

Criminality 

Criminality  is  all  compulsory.  Graft,  sickness,  murder,  de- 
ceit, war,  suicide,  theft,  vice,  are  all  crimes.  In  science  they 
are  altogether  one,  error;  and  because  God's  eyes  are  so  pure 
that  can't  see  them,  it  follows  that  they  all  have  only  one 
source,  namely,  ignorance.  Also,  science  proves  ignorance  is 
an  illusion,  because  through  a  knowledge  of  God  ignorance  is 
dispelled  away,  and  never  to  reappear  in  deed  or  in  conscious- 
ness as  real  or  illusionary.  Thus,  when  you  forsake  ignorance 
for  intelligence,  you  can't  turn  ignorant  again,  because  intel- 
ligence prevents  it;  whereas,  ignorants  can  become  intelligent. 

Now  comes  the  other  question ;  if  God  is  an  entity  and  so 
intelligent,  why  doesn't  he  expel  all  such  errors  or  ignorance 
by  himself?  Because  He  does  not  see  them.  How  can  you 
expect  truth  and  harmony  to  know  about  error  and  discord? 
It  is  up  to  humanity  to  forsake  error  for  truth. 

The  same  instrument  can  play  correctly  instead  of  insult- 
ing the  ears.  The  same  Bible  can  be  understood  spiritually 
instead  of  literally.  The  same  pencil  can  be  made  to  write 
the  correct  figures  instead  of  the  wrong  ones,  and  so  on.  See 
that  the  difference  between  the  two  definitions  given  is  com- 

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plete.  They  can't  mix,  just  as  light,  and  darkness;  light  is  all 
eyes  and  sees  itself  only.  Darkness  has  no  eyes  at  all  and 
therefore  not  only  it  can't  see  the  light,  but  it  also  can't  see 
itself. 

The  instrument  was  not  invented  to  annoy  the  audience. 
The  Bible  could  not  have  been  written  were  it  not  possible  to 
understand  it  spiritually.  The  pencil  was  not  made  for  wrong 
use. 

Read  the  Bible  like  any  other  literature,  that  is,  without 
thinking  seriously,  without  reading  between  the  lines,  and  the 
Bible  turns  out  to  be  an  interesting  collection  of  oriental  fables  ; 
write  down  two  and  two  is  five  or  anything  except  four,  smash 
the  slate  or  pencil,  and  two  and  two  is  four  just  the  same,  even 
before  the  numbers  were  invented.  The  same  is  with  the  in- 
strument or  any  other  work  and  invention  whatever ;  it  existed 
before  being  discovered. 

Because  it  takes  some  mental  effort  to  understand  the  truth, 
people  work  mostly  at  detracting  the  attention  of  each  other 
to  the  fact  that  they  prefer  to  nap.  They  even  enlist  the  serv- 
ices of  each  other  whenever  violence  is  needed  to  calm  your 
doubts,  so  that  they  can  convince  you  that  their  behavior  and 
their  interpretation  of  the  Bible  is  correct)  until  you  really 
agree  and  help  them  along. 

With  this  sort  of  arguments  I  am  trying  my  best  to  make 
you  understand  that  misrepresenting  the  teaching  of  the  Bible 
is  the  only  greatest  crime,  greater  than  war  and  all  other  errors 
put  together,  because  the  war  itself  and  all  other  errors  would 
be  impossible  if  man  knew  the  truth,  at  least  the  truth  that 
racial  hatred  and  patriotism  are  unknown  to  God ;  that  God 
does  not  hate  the  enemy,  no  matter  who  it  is. 

In  science,  a  death  before  old  age,  that  is,  before  a  painless 
passing  away  and  unknown  to  the  dying,  due  to  the  full  ripe- 
ness of  the  body,  is  a  crime ;  whether  it  is  caused  by  sin,  or 
suicide,  or  accident,  or  shot  at  the  back,  or  whatever  you  like 
to  name  it,  is  murder.  Thus,  suppose  old  age  to  be  at  one  hun- 

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dred :  if  you  die,  say,  at  forty,  it  would  mean  a  human  being 
sixty  years  old  assassinated ;  and  if  at  forty  you  still  live,  the 
forty  years  that  you  lived  are  already  death.  Life  is  never  old 
nor  young.  Life  is  always  life.  The  age  of  the  body  don't 
count.  The  loss  of  life  is  only  the  years  between  death  and 
ripe  old  age.  Yes,  the  least  pain  or  fear  when  dying  means 
manslaughter;  then,  how  man^  more  human  beings  are  mur- 
dered than  in  war? 

My  plan  to  end  wars  is  no  science  at  all,  since  you  know 
that  only  through  an  understanding  of  the  one  God  man  can 
be  saved.  My  plan  is  merely  a  device  to  enable  secondary 
players  to  create  discord  among  the  star  cast  of  the^  Universal 
Drama — a  trick  to  cause  the  nations  to  disarm,  in  order  that 
the  church  and  the  school  can  have  a  chance  to  reform.  Also,  I 
don't  mean  all  schools  and  churches,  because  there  are  good 
ones ;  I  mean  the  many  that  need  reform.  I  am  out  to  settle 
matters,  and  I  cannot  afford  to  create  opposition  by  naming 
this  or  that  good  church  and  school. 

About  three  million  men  killed  and  forty-five  billions  of 
dollars  for  two  years  of  war  means  $15,000  the  cost  to  kill  a 
man,  excluding  those  rendered  unfit  for  life,  wounded,  damage 
to  properties,  etc. 

The  above  error  is  what  prevents  the  church  and  the  school 
to  reform  themselves,  to  increase  in  number,  and  reform  the 
people  in  turn,  say,  nowadays.  I  ''believe"  the  end  of  wars 
some  fifty  years  ago  or  more  it  would  have  been  a  mistake  in- 
stead. Indeed',  military  training  turns  out  better  men  that  cer- 
tain schools  or  exercises,  and  a  war  once  in  awhile  makes  up 
many  inert  people.  Also,  war,  with  its  blood-stirring  effect, 
with  its  power  to  press  the  people  on  forcefully,  has  created 
many  geniuses  of  all  sorts ;  with  the  result  that  we  now  have 
inventions  and  works  already  done.  How  can  I  write  a  plan 
to  end  wars  if  there  were  no  wars  to  end?  Other  people  stop 
to  devise  means  of  destruction,  and  incidentally  many  of  such 
devices  will  turn  out  to  be  of  constructive  use  and  good  when 

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peace  has  come.  However,  wars  are  now  of  no  further  use. 
The  world  of  science,  with  its  many  discoveries  and  inventions 
at  hand,  is  now  ready  to  cope  with  the  need  of  mankind  with- 
out the  continuation  of  wars. 

It  wouldn't  be  a  surprise  to  see  men  like  Sir  Edward  Grey, 
President  Poincaire,  Lord  Northcliffe,  Monarchs,  Chancellor 
Bethmann-Hollweg,  Colonel  Theodore  Roosevelt  and  such 
others,  who  are  now  world's  champion  liars,  turn  out  to  be 
champions  of  humanity,  at  wars  end.  At  least  it  wouldn't  be 
a  surprise  to  me  at  all,  because  I  know  the  other  use  of  their 
mouths  and  pens  just  as  I  have  shown  you  through  the  instru- 
ment and  the  pencil.  They  were  born  only  to  do  good,  just 
like  anybody  else,  but  the  present  use  of  their  mouths  and  pens 
is  as  compulsory  as  a  big  fish  in  the  sea  eating  smaller  ones  for 
feed.  The  demonstration  of  truth  during  war  or  armed  peace 
is  possible  only  in  particular;  and  that  was  only  a  matter  of 
twenty  centuries  ago,  more  or  less ;  and,  if  we  had  to  draw  the 
difference  of  the  population  of  that  time  with  the  present,  and 
the  time  passed,  it  would  turn  out  to  be  no  progress  at  all ; 
and  up  to  some  fifty  years  ago  it  was  lost. 

First,  you  are  forced  to  go;  next,  a  shell  from  miles  away 
bursts  where  you  are,  tears  you  to  pieces,  and  that  is  an  inno- 
cent death  as  thrusting  a  totally  blind  man  or  child  in  the 
cage  of  the  wild  beasts  and  turning  one's  back ;  with  no  chance 
to  defend  himself,  no  chance  to  refuse  to  defend  oneself,  no 
chance^to  keep  off  the  danger.  '  More  than  fifty  millions  of 
others  outside  the  firing  line  support  themselves  by  working 
and  furnishing1  the  troops  of  the  means  to  butcher  each  other ; 
and  many  more  millions  are  supported  or  make  a  living  out  of 
the  wages  of  the  workers  and  builders  of  infernal  machines — 
blood  work  and  money,  too — and  among  these  we  have  also 
people  who  know  that  God  is  good !  To  show  how  truth  works 
is  a  wonderful  story ;  to  practice  it  in  a  world  of  suppression  is 
another.  Then  crimes  are  the  product  of  ignorance  or  as  a 
matter  of  course  so  long  as  truth  cannot  be  employed  to  dispel 
ignorance  universally. 

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Resignation  and  Rebellion 

Some  people  get  along  as  a  cat  about  a  cork  and  remain 
healthy  and  good ;  and  some  people  require  to  do  a  great  deal 
of  good  work  in  order  not  to  fall  sick.  Very  unhappily,  among 
the  latter  we  have  undesirables  who,  in  some  way  or  another, 
resent  to  poverty,  graft,  hunger,  war,  the  sight  of  the  starving, 
persecution,  underwages,  lawmakers  on  both  sides  who  choose 
to  lead  millions  of  men  to  kill  each  other  instead  of  getting 
together  and  settle  without  war,  and  even  dare  to  refuse  shoot- 
ing at  people  whom  they  have  nothing  against. 

Among  women  we  have  it  about  the  same.  Some  find  con- 
solation by  themselves ;  and  others  with  some  red  blood  in 
their  veins  insist  they  want  a  man  of  their  own.  Very  unfor- 
tunately, too,  among  the  latter  we  have  impertinent  ones  who, 
in  some  way  or  another,  rebel  at  the  law  that  makes  it  impos- 
sible or  difficult  for  men  to  marry.  And  these  are  very  dan- 
gerous; because  instead  of  believing  that  men  are  good  for 
nothing,  they  believe  that  armed  peace  and  wars  take  some  of 
the  flower  of  men  from  them,  and  the  rest  of  the  men  rendered 
unable  to  comfort  women  and  children. 

Crimes,  hatred,  socialism,  corrupt  wealth,  anarchism,  peace 
societies,  illiteracy,  will  disappear  as  the  result  of  ending  wars. 
Therefore,  before  you  help  to  end  wars  through  action,  see 
what  you  are  about  to  do,  because  there  are  certain  things  in 
which  you  may  be  interested  and  may  wish  to  keep  them 
standing.  If  you  believe  you  can  escape  your  real  duty  by  gel- 
ting  along  as  usual,  and  by  arguing  that  your  usual  way  is  the 
right  course  to  pursue,  you  are  in  the  great  company  of  the 
already  famous  players. 

If  you  agree  with  war,  poverty,  and  discord,  you  agree  with 
the  present  law,  witli  graft,  with  the  majority  of  lawmakers 
who  have  no  blame  because  they  wouldn't  be  elected  unless 
they  consent  to  be  corrupted,  and  you  would  be  a  very  good 
citizen ;  and  a  better  citizen  you  would  be  if  you  don't  believe 
in  what  I  say,  unless  you  can't  understand  at  all. 

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Centuries  ago  the  working  class,  you,  boarded  the  sailing 
ship  of  evolution,  from  the  city  of  slavery  to  the  city  of  liberty ; 
every  day  of  journey  brings  your  ship  nearer  the  goal — in- 
creased progress  daily,  and  that,  without  fail.  Instead  of  set- 
ting out  to  contrive  a  machine  with  a  propeller,  as  the  capital- 
istic class  did,  you  set  about  arguments.  I  hope  you  will  not 
seize  the  opportunity  of  justifying  yourself  if  I  also  fail  to  cause 
the  ship  to  go  faster.  If  what  I  say  is  found  incorrect,  if  my 
plan  fails,  I  will  be  the  first  to  admit  that  I  am  mistaken ;  but 
you  insist  that  you  are  right  when  you  yourself  know  that  the 
wind  only  drives  you  onward ;  in  other  words,  if  the  way  in 
which  you  assail  the  capitalistic  class  were  correct,  you  would 
not  get  stung  all  along.  To  end  wars  it  takes  action ;  there- 
fore, I  can  give  out  only  facts  and  a  plan  to  end  them,  and  also 
in  a  manner  that  I  see  it  fit.  As  for  fine  speaking,  phraseology, 
or  literary  embellishment,  I  recommend  some  of  your  own 
leaders,  aside  of  aristocracy,  who  are  still  highly  eulogized, 
even  in  Europe. 

About  ninety-five  per  cent  of  the  people  pay  the  price  of 
wars  and  armed  peace,  in  some  way  or  another.  The  other 
five  gain.  Money  don't  go  lost.  War  and  preparedness  merely 
transfers  the  money  from  many  pockets  to  fewer  ones. 

Money  kings  and  business  corporations  of  all  nations  have 
just  enough  ability  to  seat  at  the  law-houses  the  majority  of 
lawmakers  they  want.  If  I  must  agree  with  you  that  it  is  the 
'people  that  elect  the  lawmakers  who  are  to  blame,  then  agree 
also  with  me  that  the  people  are  easily  misinformed  into  be- 
lieving this  or  that  and  fear  for  the  worst  if  they  don't.  They 
even  have  the  ability  to  keep  a  minority  of  radical  lawmakers 
in  order  to  show  the  people  that  the  law  from  the  majority  is 
the  right  one — what  they  say  goes.  Anyhow,  the  miserable 
purse  of  the  poor  can't  run  the  business  of  the  majority  of  law- 
makers and  press. 

You  can  do  nothing  right  before  you  understand  that  the 
other  way  is  wrong;  but  the  error  of  war  you  "can't"  right  up 

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even  if  you  know  it  is  wrong,  because  few  men,  with  the  help 
of  the  righteous  law,  have  filled  their  pockets  from  the  pockets 
of  the  many%  and  then  with  a  part  of  their  gains  they  can  con- 
trol the  censors,  special  writers  and  such  other  means  to  show 
the  people  that  all's  well,  and  prevent  them  from  getting  to- 
gether and  claim  their  chance. 

For  instance,  forty  dollars  a  month  in  wages  is  ten  dollars 
more  than  a  man  needs  in  the  west  of  the  United  States,  but 
the  ten  dollars  left  is  not  enough  for  a  home  and  a  wife.  A 
man  minus  the  latter  outbalances  the  body,  that  is,  the  body 
of  the  man  has  that  much  strength  to  care  for  a  home  or  fam- 
ily ;  it  follows  that,  unless  he  is  of  the  former  type  of  people 
mentioned,  he  must,  to  keep  even  with  his  mind,  suppress  that 
additional  faculty  of  the  body  through  more  drinks,  smoking, 
gambling,  and  other  pastimes ;  then,  if  he  knows  where  the 
blame  for  his  conditions  comes  from,  is  it  any  wonder  if  he 
rebels?  Then  we  have  jailers,  lawyers,  undertakers,  judges, 
reporters,  "I,"  newspapermen,  who  make  a  living  or  earn  some 
money  out  of  him.  Forty  dollars  in  the  east  of  the  United 
States  would  be  enough,  but  for  the  same  position  there  are 
lower  wages.  Forty  dollars  would  do  much  better  in  Europe, 
but  for  the  same  job  there  you  can  scarcely  count  them  in 
franks.  You  can't  earn  forty  dollars  by  working  in  the  west  of 
the  United  States  and  live  in  the  east  or  in  Europe  at  the  same 
time.  There  are  other  positions  with  higher  wages,  but  many 
of  these  reduce  a  man  so  weary  that  he  becomes  a  pity  at 
home. 

Let  the  government  tax  the  rich,  or  let  the  rich  concede 
better  wages  to  the  people ;  and  higher  rent,  higher  price  of 
food,  higher  price  of  other  necessities  of  living,  gets  the  money 
back  to  the  rich.  Of  course,  anybody  has  a  chance  to  become 
rich,  but  if  everybody  would  become  rich  there  would  be  no 
chances  left. 

People  say :  "We  have  the  strength  if  we  get  together." 
II mv  can  you  use  that  strength?  Suppose  it  takes  only  one 

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hour  to  get  together.  The  authorities  interfere  before  your 
plan  takes  root.  The  employer  overworks  the  employee  until 
the  latter  shrinks  and  sinks  in  emotions  at  the  appearance  or 
threats  of  the  former — until  he  creates  discord  among  his  fel- 
low workers  as  a  means  to  conceal  his  incompetency,  and  will 
do  anything  to  be  relieved  soon  from  his  miserable  condition. 
How  can  you  get  that  man  ready  in  one  hour?  You  can  read- 
ily understand  why  his  employer  or  the  militarists  have  an 
advantage  over  you  as  to  muster  him  for  any  purpose — then, 
we  have  also  some  men,  picked  out  from  you  and  rendered 
stupid,  not  through  overwork  or  hardship,  but  carefully  trained 
and  ready  to  shoot  your  organization  before  it  has  power 
enough  to  win.  You  can  win  a  strike,  you  can  deal  a  blow,  but 
that  is  not  a  novelty.  Those  few  men  have  also  the  capacity 
of  captivating  people  like  me  in  their  net,  as  they  always  have 
done,  and  then  use  them  to  show  to  others  of  their  class  that 
they  are  wrong,  in  order  that  more  of  them  fall  in  the  net  to 
complete  the  scheme.  You  can  have  the  same  lesson  on  the 
European  Socialists  who  are  now  blaming  each  other.  \\  hen 
the  war  broke  out,  the  war  parties  on  both  sides  suppressed  the 
news  of  anybody  showing  their  treachery ;  and  the  news  .of 
some  socialists  less  alert  but  known,  claiming  that  the  others 
broke  the  pledge  first  or  that  "our  country"  is  more  threat- 
ened, did  not  find  any  censorship — but  the  way  clear — that  is 
the  way  both  sides  got  into  the  trap;  and  all  the  loyal  social- 
ists are  dealt  with  by  the  war  departments,  or  shot  down,  if 
they  stand  in  the  way. 

Believing  in  what  I  say  is  dangerous,  it  would  be  the  belief 
that  poverty,  discord,  and  criminals  are  the  products  of  wars 
or  armed  ;peace.  Now,  if  a  criminal  is  a  product  of  wars,  it 
follows  that  war  is  the  blame  for  his  crimes.  Thus,  compel  a 
man  to  go  crazy  through  hunger,  persecution  or  unkind  man- 
ners until  he  rebels  against.  Is  he  the  blame  for  wrong  doing 
or  isn't  there  a  cause  back  of  his  crimes?  I  agree  that  the 
only  way  is  to  put  him  to  jail  and  give  him  a  sentence  accord- 

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ing  to  his  crime ;  and  I  myself  would  help  catch  him  and  agree 
with  the  law,  for  three  reasons ;  the  first  is  on  the  grounds  that 
others,  no  matter  whom,  may  not  fall  victims  to  him ;  the  sec- 
ond is  on  the  grounds  that,  if  he  is  a  radical  or  revolutionist, 
crime  or  violence  hinders  the  pursuit  of  his  cause  instead  of 
progressing  it ;  and  third,  that  you  may  not  have  a  chance  to 
advertise  your  doubts  of  me.  No,  you  did  not  drive  the  man 
out  of  his  good  behavior  expressly,  but  wrong  laws,  wars,  or 
suppression  did  it. 

Since  men  killed  or  injured  on  a  battlefield  are  as  innocent 
as  the  victims  of  any  crime  or  bad  living,  it  follows  that  being 
sorry  for  or  sympathizing  only  with  the  former  or  with  the  lat- 
ter is  a  mistake.  And  if  you  are  sorry  for  both,  you  will  have 
to  be  sorry  all  the  time  until  you  yourself  weaken  and  get 
sick,  in  order  that  others  can  then  have  the  same  excuse  to 
sympathize  with  you.  Also,  love  for  your  country  better  than 
all  others  is  partiality.  The  love  that  you  entertain  more  for 
one  side,  no  matter  which  side  it  is,  turns  hatred  for  the  other, 
hatred  breeds  crimes,  and  thus  you  are  a  criminal.  Hatred  to- 
ward others,  no  matter  whom,  can't  be  a  means  to  stop  the 

. 
latter  from  hating  you  in  turn.     Difference  in  race  or  religion, 

boundary  lines  or  national  habits,  unecjuality,  don't  alter  the 
law  of  good  will ;  the  only  escape  is  to  love  everybody  the 
same,  and  that  can  be  only  when  you  quit  loving  one  side  bet- 
ter than  another,  first. 

Take,  for  example,  the  question  of  prohibition.  If  it  is  not 
country  wide,  or  world  wide,  people  will  crave  for,  smuggle, 
or  sin  in  secret.  However,  substitutes  for  strong  drinks  can't 
be  more  harmful,  but  they  are  more  harmful  than,  say,  wine 
and  beer.  Thus,  if  you  take  away  also  the  latter  milder  drinks 
and  tobacco  from  a  man  used  to  them,  it  merely  leads  him  to 
seek  consolation  in  other  vices  that,  because  they  are  more 
base,  I  refrain  to  mention  them.  The  manner  in  which  man 
is  driven  to  other  substitutes  for  stimulants  is  already  well 

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explained  by  other  authorities,  and  there  is  no  reasons  why  I 
should  stuff  up  this  book  with  others'  works. 

When  you  see  a  lady  comforting  her  cat  or  coddling  her- 
self, it  signifies  that  she  hurts  herself  the  same  as  drinking 
liquors  or  smoking  cigarettes.  Some  writers  would  even  say 
that  she  weakens  her  mind  more;  at  any  rate,  it  can't  be  any 
less  than  a  sort  of  sensuality,  and  sensuality  can't  be  any  less 
than  sin.  Tea,  coffee  and  sweets  are  indeed  not  the  only  sub- 
stitutes for  wine,  beer  and  tobacco ;  the  moderate  and  exces- 
sive use  of  the  former  are  just  as  injurious  as  the  excessive  and 
moderate  use  of  the  latter.  Go  ask  the  majority  of  the  best 
inventors,  business  people,  composers,  writers,  people  that 
do  things,  about  moderate  drinking  and  smoking.  I  don't  be- 
lieve in  belief  myself,  understanding  is  what  counts. 

Dissipators  and  oppressors  can  be  exterminated  only  by 
truth — by  killing  them  off  is  no  science,  and  is  also  impossible 
because  they  are  better  armed  than  the  would-be  slayers.  If 
you  kill,  mistreat,  or  even  only  insult  a  murderer,  a  sinner,  or 
anybody — remember  well,  no  matter  who  it  is,  no  matter  who 
you  are,  and  for  whatever  reasons — you  would  be  a  criminal 
or  a  sinner  yourself.  Truth  only  solves  the  problem.  Truth 
only  punishes.  Man  quits  sensuality,  fast  living  or  crimes  by 
himself  only  when  he  understands  that  there  is  no  life  in  any- 
thing which  he  believes  it  satisfies  his  flesh.  Believing  that  it 
is  an  error  doesn't  amount  to  anything;  it  takes  the  Christ- 
like  mind  and  nothing  else,  and  I  have  already  shown  you  the 
obstacles  that  are  in  the  way — I  am  universally  speaking,  and 
if  you  can't  stand  anything  but  partiality  you  know  where  to 
find  what  you  want. 

Whether  you  are  a  hard  worker,  a  dissipator,  a  capitalist, 
or  else,  you  cannot  understand  the  truth,  and  save  yourself, 
unless  you  have  a  chance  to  practice  it — you  cannot  help  to 
understand  and  practice  it  in  proportion  to  the  chance  you 
have.  It  takes  that  much  time,  chance  or  freedom;  and  the 
business  of  the  employer  or  the  habits  of  the  well-to-do  is  none 

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the  less  an  obstacle  in  the  way  than  is  the  weariness  or  anxiety 
of  the  hard  worker  and  hard-pressed  people.  There  is  no  more 
happiness  in  one  rank  than  in  another.  You  are  compelled  to 
pretend  or  fail  to  hear  the  truth,  and  laugh  at,  or  misrepresent 
it,  just  in  proportion  to  the  difficulty  to  practice  it;  and  fight 
against  it  in  proportion  to  the  means  of  suppression  you  have, 
or  in  proportion  to  the  tenacity  of  your  self-pride,  even  though 
you  know  that  Satan  the  devil  is  the  dear  old  friend  never 
minus  a  grave. 

The  Cause  of  the  War 

Either  agree  with  me  that  the  cause  of  the  war  is  as  old  as 
thousands  of  years  or  admit  that  diplomats  who  thrust  their 
nations  into  war  are  the  only  criminals  on  earth. 

A  pair  of  feminine  eyes  here  and  there,  especially  higher 
up,  have,  before  and  now,  enough  energy  to  drive  men  mad, 
to  commit  all  sorts  of  crimes,  and  can  plunge,  not  only  Europe 
but  the  whole  world,  in  hell.  And  in  it  I  exactly  include  also 
the  smartest  of  men.  You  can  readily  understand  the  compul- 
sive, terrible  cause  of  that  pair  of  lanterns.  Because  women 
will  scorn  the  defeated  and  admire  and  fall  for  the  victors,  no- 
.body  wants  to  be  defeated.  Death  is  preferred.  The  Euro- 
pean war  is  already  past  the  second  year,  and  you  will  have  it 
to  a  finish,  just  because:  He  who  wins,  wins  me! 

Surely,  it  is  a  huge  price  for  a  caprice — the  fondness  of  hav- 
ing a  husband  or  a  sweetheart  of  military  title.  Isn't  the  story 
thousands  of  years  old? 

If  militarists  on  both  sides  were  told  by  women  whom  they 
approach  that  their  honor  is  only  from  the  science  of  mur- 
der, you  would  see  the  greatest  spectacle  of  all  times — you 
would  see  war  vessels,  fortresses,  and  all  war  stuff,  sunk  or 
bursted  by  their  very  officers  at  once.  That  is  all  the're  is 
about  the  real  cause,  at  least,  of  the  continuation  of  the  war. 
The  ten  rules  shown  is  just  a  way  to  pluck  off  those  eyes, 
which  will  exterminate  the  self-pride  of  the  star  players  of 

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the  Universal  Drama  so  rapidly  that  will  turn  all  armaments 
on  offence  instead  of  a  protection.  The  possibility  of  earning 
the  love  of  a  woman  without  risking  one's  life  in  the  game  of 
trading  shells  with  each  other  is  some  feat,  yes,  it  is  the  very 
necessary  realization. 

Other  causes  of  the  war,  which  causes  really  are  partly  the 
products  of  war  and  partly  war  itself,  you  already  know  them ; 
and  if  you  don't  know  them,  it  is  because  you  never  read  peace 
literature  before.  Suffice  it  to  know  that  destroying  substi- 
tutes for  the  cause  of  the  war  or  any  wrong  arises  from  the 
fact  that  men  must  mistake  the  wrong  for  the  real,  so  long  as 
the  real  is  unknown ;  because  the  mind  of  the  woman  insists 
that  man  be  stronger  than  her,  and  that  is  a  command  that 
does  not  hesitate ;  it  must  be  obeyed  at  once  and  at  all  costs. 
The  result  is  that,  because  the  usual  way  of  writing,  of  speak- 
ing, of  doing  things,  is  more  popular;  real  thinking  and  real 
actions,  the  only  way  out,  is  left  aside.  I  believe  to  remember 
an  article  in  a  newspaper  long  ago,  where  Enrico  Caruso, 
world's  greatest  tenor,  says :  "Effortless  singing  is  the  only 
real  singing."  That  alone  is  a  complete  lesson.  It  signifies 
that  there  is  no  effort  in  singing  wrong,  no  science  in  it.  And 
besides,  the  effort  is  only  in  thinking  to  sing  effortlessly  when 
the  body  is  very  quiet;  meanwhile  the  vocal  organs  and  all 
other  cavities  of  the  body  elasticate  and  shape  themselves,  and 
ultimately  sing  as  mind  planned  to.  You  cannot  imagine  of 
any  effort  in  singing  after  the  body  is  made  agile  all  around 
and  cleared  off  of  its  impurities  by  mind — not  meaning  the 
popular  forceful  physical  exercises  or  mechanical  study  and 
practice.  So  the  idea  is  to  think  the  matter  over  seriously, 
then  the  body  becomes  a  cheerful  and  most  obedient  servant 
of  the  mind.  If  Enrico  Caruso  is  the  world's  best  tenor  it  must 
be  that  he  thought  to  sing  effortlessly  more  than  any  other 
tenor. 

What  is  true  about  singing  is  true  about  anything  else ; 
that  is,  right  thinking  and  doing  is  absolutely  voluntary  and 

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non-eompulsory,  and  wrong  thinking  and  doing  is  absolutely 
compulsory  and  void  of  a  least  effort.  Physical  force  is  alto- 
gether a  lie — all  that  which  appears  to  be  real  to  the  five 
physical  senses  is  unreal.  There  are  no  half  ways.  Either  it 
is  entirely  compulsory  or  entirely  voluntary.  Either  sensa- 
tion is  entirely  wrong  and  a  myth  or  entirely  right  and  real. 
Reality  is  not  disputable.  Mind's  opposite  can't  know  any 
thing  of  mind  nor  of  itself.  I  also  mean  to  say  that  you  your- 
self, I,  and  anybody  else  don't  know  what  mind's  opposite  is. 
All  emptiness — mind's  opposite — is  real  and  altogether  tan- 
gible to  mortals,  say,  to  us,  but  if  you  have  taken  notice  of 
the  lesson  of  the  pencil  and  the  instrument  you  know  what 
mortals  means.  Good,  to  be  good,  is  to  be  good  all  around ; 
were  it  not  entirely  good,  there  would  be  room  left  for  bad,' and 
that  don't  go,  because  good  would  be  no  more  good.  Either 
good  is  entirely  good  and  bad  nowhere,  or  bad  is  all  there  is. 
You  can't  free  yourself  without  conscious  effort.  When  mor- 
tals can't  see  any  physical  effort,  it  means  their  self-pride  is 
touched ;  when  they  laugh  at  you,  when  they  resent  what  you 
say,  it  means  you  have  done  something'  good,  it  means  you 
spoke  to  them  the  truth  ;  and  when  they  remain  with  their 
usual  mood,  when  they  agree  with  you,  it  means  you  lied  too. 
I  claim  that  if  the  European  diplomats  had  only  a  few  hours 
of  time  to  think  the  matter  over,  instead  of  busying  themselves 
about  notes  to  justify  each  other  about  telling  lies,  not  only 
they  would  have  prevented  the  war  from  breaking  out,  but 
they  really  would  have  agreed  to  disarm  instead ;  because  the 
latter  is  the  only  way  in  which  they  could  prevent  war.  Easier 
to  carry  on  a  war  of  long  years  than  to  reason  together  for 
about  a  few  hours.  Easier  to  kill  a  man  at  the  cost  of  $15,000 
than  to  lea-ve  him  in  peace.  Easier  to  spend  billions  for  the 
advancement  of  hatred  and  crime  than  to  spend  millions  for 
the  advancement  of  friendship  and  love.  Easier,  not  in  your 
country  alone,  but  in  all  the  countries  the  same,  to  cheat  the 
people  with  the  excuse  that  preparedness  is  against  war  and 

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for  protection  only,  than  to  teach  them  that  preparedness  does 
not  protect. 

If  you  claim  women  are  not  a  cause  to  prevent  responsible 
persons  from  reasoning  together  for  awhile,  well,  I  include 
you  and  I  with  them.  They  "could  if  they  would"  is  a  mis- 
take; because  ''they  would  if  they  could."  With  all  the  facil- 
ities that  no  other  sort  of  people  have — finest  experience,  finest 
knowledge  of  international  law,  finest  chance,  special  trains, 
trusted  servants,  private  wires — just  all  what  they  had  to  have 
to  help  themselves  about  misunderstanding  each  other ;  be- 
cause they  know  that  people  must  not  have  time  to  think  if 
their  lies  are  to  be  made  good ;  and  that  would  be  impossible 
without  all  such  means  in  their  hands.  The  idea  that  they 
themselves  knew  they  were  lying  and  fully  aware  of  the  con- 
sequences, most  terrible,  long  war,  goes  without  saying;  but 
the  cause  must  end  in  the  effect  at  all  costs  or  under  any  cir- 
cumstances ;  and  no  matter  which  cause  is  an  effect  coming 
from.  A  mine  can  sink  a  barge  as  well  as  the  largest  ship;  a 
match  can  light  a  cigarette  as  well  as  can  explode  any  explo- 
sive put  together.  Whatever  it  is,  is  due  to  some  cause.  Fire 
a  gun,  and  the  shell  does  not  take  any  rest  before  it  strikes 
somewhere,  before  it  stops ;  there  is  no  time  to  take  a  rest 
before  it  stops. 

The  cause  of  the  war  is  not  like  the  gun  with  the  shell,  in 
which  you  can  either  destroy  the  gun  or  build  a  shell-proof 
wall,  as  you  please,  but  is  like  the  source  of  a  large  river. 
Then,  the  cause  of  the  war  also  cannot  be  destroyed.  You 
cannot  prevent  women  from  thinking  men  stronger  than  them- 
selves, because  that's  natural.  What  God  made  you  can't 
undo.  If  reality  is  indestructible  and  eternal,  it  follows  that 
trying  to  undo  reality  to  be  like  trying  to  blo.w  up  the  universe 
by  hanging  oneself.  God  can't  be  any  less  than  perfection, 
and  perfection  can't  be  any  less  than  complete.  All  the  wrong 
effects  that  come  from  mistaking  the  nature  of  the  one  Great 
Cause  are  turned  into  as  many  causes,  of  which  the  material- 

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ists  are  very  jealous  to  show  you  as  real.  Now,  I  know  how 
easy  it  is  for  you  to  understand  that  the  only  way  is  to  divert 
the  course  of  the  river.  That  is,  inventors,  artists,  mayors, 
speakers,  champions  of  sport,  and  the  like,  of  which  they  are 
mostly  militarists  now,  will  be  feted  in  place  of  the  militarists 
of  the  present,  and  their  works  and  daring  will  take  the  place 
of  sensational  news  of  war,  in  order  that  women  may  not  be 
deprived  of  their  natural  instinct  to  rejoice  over,  to  cheer,  to 
praise,  to  contest  the  love  of  this  or  that  man — or,  better  still, 
instead  of  allowing  the  wealthy  source  of  the  river  to  end  in 
the  sea,  use  it  for  irrigation,  for  good. 

Generally  speaking,  are  not  people  who  stand  for  peace 
about  the  mouth  of  the  river?  Unlike  the  militarists,  they 
don't  do  any  harm ;  but  of  what  is  the  use  of  making  a  stand 
at  the  mouth  of  the  river? 

It  is  true,  people  are  in  the  majority  against  war,  they  have 
meeting  places  all  over  the  world,  and  would  do  anything  to 
end  wars,  but  of  what  avail  if  few  men  have  the  ability  to  hand 
them  wrong  causes  of  the  war  to  destroy  ?  They  go  even  fur- 
ther than  that,  they  go  as  far  as  claiming  each  others'  substi- 
tutes to  be  real  causes  of  the  war,  and  maintain  their  claim 
even  at  the  cost  of  the  loss  of  self-respect,  even  at  the  cost  of 
drawing  at  the  mouth  of  the  river. 

Among  women  we  have  more  diversity  of  opinions ;  fewer 
women  than  men  have  the  ability  to  deceive  all  the  others. 
Nursing  the  wounded,  charity  work,  anxious  to  attract  the  at- 
tention of  men  for  their  sad  faces,  are  all  means  to  encourage 
men  to  contest  each  others'  popularity,  all  means  to  increase 
the  fury  of  wars.  Because  Dame  Rumor  brings  the  news  that 
some  women  have  been  rescued  by  some  men,  others  are  in- 
clined to  fall  in  distress  or  do  anything  so  that  they  can  have 
the  same,  until  Dame  Age  disappoints  them.  They  will  not 
even  look  in  the  eyes  of  anybody  in  order  to  escape  a  real 
duty.  Publicity  at  any  price,  even  at  the  expenses  of  the  con- 
tinuation of  wars,  is  the  rule  among  men,  and  also  among 

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some  women  you  know.  There  is  an  exception,  of  course.  As 
can  be  seen  by  the  ten  rules  of  the  plan,  very  few  women,  some 
of  which  are  to  be  related  to  military  officers,  can  shake  the 
world,  they  can  win  over  against  the  opposition  of  all  the  other 
women  and  men  put  together;  because  that  scheme  strikes  at 
self-pride  instead  of  culturing  it. 

The  reason  why  I  call  the  militarists  and  suppressors  as 
good  as  any  other  is  altogether  scientific.  The  lesson  of  the 
instrument  and  the  pencil  is  so  clear  that  even  a  child  can 
understand.  It  is  the  same  as  saying  that  the  bad  of  the  mili- 
tarists and  suppressors  is  a  myth.  If  you  say  it  is  not  a  myth, 
you  deceive  yourself  first  of  all,  because  instead  of  turning 
champions  of  real  protection,  as  I  claim  and  can  show,  you 
would  argue  that  they  will  keep  on  suppressing  and  leading 
people  to  wars  after  their  armed  assistance  and  means  of  sup- 
pression are  wiped  out. 

Divine  Love  starvation  is  the  term  that  should  always  be 
used  in  place  of  persecution,  sensualism,  or  materialism.  You 
know  very  well  that  even  a  billion  dollars  and  most  beautiful 
women  can't  satisfy  anybody,  and  that  there  is  always  some- 
thing wanting.  So  a  criminal  or  a  sinner  is  nothing  but  Love 
(divine)  starved,  in  proportion  to  how  deeply  he  clings  to  ani- 
mality ;  that  is  to  say,  he  is  merely  deceived  as  to  the  real  sub- 
stance, merely  believes  to  be  rewarded  for  his  efforts  in  the 
accumulation  of  material  wealth,  and  does  not  know  that  real 
effort,  real  hard  work,  is  in  getting  along  without  mind's  op- 
posite, and  in  earning  the  love  of  a  woman  without  Satan 
taking  a  hand  in  it — that  is,  he  is  a  victim  of  wrong  education, 
even  though  he  were  a  professor. 

At  wars  end  military  officers  can't  be  anything  but  real 
officers  of  the  governments,  to  train  police  forces,  to  super- 
vise works  of  construction,  of  sanitation,  and  hundreds  of  other 
necessities  for  human  welfare,  at  home  and  also  in  uncivilized 
countries;  because  military  officers  are  already  most  skillful 
in  mechanics,  in  seamanship,  surgery,  medicine,  engineering, 

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and  among  them  there  is  also  a  great  number  of  talented  teach- 
ers, artists  and  preachers,  just  what  is  wanted  at  home  or  to 
fill  governmental  positions. 

The  cause  of  modern  wars,  especially  the  European  war, 
is  more  capitalistic  than  else;  and  therefore,  not  exactly  due 
to  military  ambition  nor  of  preserving  military  titles.  I 
should  not  speak  about  it  here  were  it  not  easy  for  me  to  men- 
tion it  briefly. 

The  European  war  could  not  have  been  started,  in  any  way, 
without  both  England  and  Germany  wanting  it. 

Before  the  war  broke  out  anybody  knew  Russia  was  back- 
ing Serbia.  Therefore,  Austria  knew  that  Serbia  will  not  give 
in,  and  that  there  will  be  sure  war  before  sending  out  the  ulti- 
matum. Austria  knew  that  a  war  against  both  the  Russians 
and  the  Serbians  is  an  absolutely  hopeless  undertaking,  void 
of  a  least  chance  to  win.  Now  we  have  it:  Austria  was  com- 
pletely sure  of  Germany's  intervention  on  her  side  before  send- 
ing out  the  ultimatum  to  Serbia,  or  she  would  not  have  sent 
such  ultimatum.  Had  Serbia  to  fight  Austria  alone,  a  simple 
note  of  regret  to  Austria  and  punishment  of  the  assassins 
would  have  been  the  right  manner  to  settle  all,  or  had  Austria 
been  sure  to  fight  both  the  Russians  and  Serbians  alone  a 
milder  note  instead  of  an  ultimatum  would  have  been  found 
to  be  reasonable  that  the  Serbians  would  have  turned  to  be 
the  most  respectful  people  toward  the  Austrians.  Next : 

Before  the  war  both  France  and  Russia  together  knew  that 
a  war  between  them  and  the  central  empires  to  be  void  of  any 
chance  to  win.  Now,  too,  we  have  it :  both  France  and  Russia 
would  not  have  started  to  mobilize,  and  even  would  have  de- 
mobilized when  Germany  asked  for  reasons,  were  they  not  com- 
pletely sure  that  England  was  with  them.  So  that  the  entrance 
of  England  into  the  war  on  account  of  Belgium  is  nothing  but 
a  pretext  like  all  the  warring  powers  have  issued;  because 
before  the  war  anybody  knew  that  Germany  being  on  one  side 
and  England  on  the  other  side  of  Belgium,  both  had  to  cross 

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Belgium  because  the  latter  is  between,  in  the  way ;  and  whether 
there  are  secret  treaties  or  not,  "military  reasons"  have  always 
cleared  obstacles  in  the  way.  The  advantage  of  Germany  in 
this  war  to  cross  Belgium  or  strike  first  lies  in  geographical 
positions,  and  not  that  she  was  militarily  stronger  than  all 
her  opponents  put  together  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war. 

If  you  think  it  over  well,  the  cause  of  the  start  of  the 
European  war  are  both  England  and  Germany  alike,  and  the 
reason  is  this:  Germany  needed  colonial  expansion,  but  Eng- 
land was  in  the  way.  England  wanted  to  keep  her  supremacy 
of  the  world's  market,  but  Germany  was  in  the  way.  Well, 
what  are  the  navies  and  armies  for?  Do  you  mean  to  have 
such  armaments  just  for  beauty,  to  admire,  to  gaze  on? 

Austria,  Russia,  Germany,  France,  .started  to  mobilize  as 
quickly  as  they  could  soon  after  the  Savarejan  tragedy.  For 
what,  against  whom? 

Did  they  start  to  mobilize  their  huge  armies  and  navies 
with  the  purpose  to  protect  and  prevent  the  expenditure  of 
billions  of  dollars  and  the  lives  of  millions  of  men? 

Is  the  huge  English  navy  preventing  the  loss  of  many  lives 
and  some  twenty-five  million  dollars  daily  to  the  English 
people  ? 

Did  the  strong  German  army  protect  the  lives  of  some 
three  million  German  soldiers  already  killed  and  wounded? 

Military  preparedness  also  failed  to  protect  Belgium,  north- 
ern France,  German  colonies,  Serbia,  Montenegro,  Hungary, 
Galicia,  Poland,  Courland,  east  Prussia,  ships,  and  cities  from 
air  raids. 

If  that  is  the  way  armies  and  navies  protect  their  respective 
nations,  how  much  more  protection  and  safety  will  the  popula- 
tion of  this  world  have  without  armaments,  oh  you  militarists! 

Taking  into  consideration  the  claims  of  the  chief  nations  at 
war  is  approving  to  them. 

The  declaration  of  war  by  Germany  against  France  and 
Russia  was,  or  is  believed  by  the  Entente  Alliance  to  be,  a  war 

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of  aggression  and  for  the  mastery  of  Europe ;  and  on  the  other 
hand,  when  France  and  Russia  ordered  their  forces  mobilized, 
Germany  doubted  if  such  mobilization  were  against  each 
other,  for  they  are  too  wide  apart,  or,  as  one  might  say, 
Russia  against  Japan  and  France  against  England,  but  sus- 
pected that  it  was  intended  against  her,  and,  because  England 
has  more  probability  of  making  friends  out  of  some  other 
nations  through  her  big  fleet,  Germany  thought  it  to  be  of 
more  advantage  to  strike  before  the  mobilization  of  the  En- 
tente Alliance  was  completed. 

Now  suppose  the  Germans  are  wrong,  what  are  you  going 
to  do  with  it  if  they  believe  they  are  right?  Or  suppose  the 
allied  countries  are  wrong  instead,  what  are  you  displeased 
for,  if  they  believe  the  course  they  pursue  is  the  right  one? 

Even  if  one  side  were  right  in  the  course  it  pursues  and 
the  other  wrong,  it  is  still  an  error  to  take  side  with'  the  right 
party,  for  the  simple  reason  that  the  wrong  party,  believing 
that  she  is  right  and  the  other  wrong,  sacrifices  more  forces 
and  wealth  to  meet  that  much  more  of  opposition ;  and  more 
atrocities,  more  loss  for  both  sides,  is  the  result.  For  instance, 
if  you  go  to  fight  Germany  for  having  violated  the  neutrality 
of  Belgium,  it  means  another  German  soldier  on  the  firing 
line,  or  an  old  man,  or  a  boy  below  military  age,  or  even  a 
woman  if  a  man  is  lacking;  and  what  would  you  be  fighting 
against?  Germany,  just  like  any  other  nation,  means  very  few 
men  at  the  head  of  the  people ;  and  you  would  be  fighting  some 
poor,  deceived  human  beings,  who  are  no  more  and  no  less 
than  you  are,  sent  there  to  shoot  and  to  be  shot — for  you  must 
remember  that  while  you  shoot  at  them  they  shoot  at  you 
also — and  besides,  you  would  be  striking  at  anything  except 
where  you  intended  to,  because  those  few  responsible  men 
stay  always  in  the  safest  zone. 

No,  what  matters  most  is  that  if  you  like  to  see  the  end  of 
wars,  of  racial  hatred,  of  the  persecution  of  the  Jews  and  Arme- 
nians, of  religious  fanaticism,  of  discord — well,  it  is  by  dis- 

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arming  them  all,  and  it  is  possible,  through  your  help.  But 
if  you  merely  like  to  show  your  dissatisfaction  toward  war 
and  all  that  goes  with  it ;  if  you  merely  like  to  be  a  soldier  of 
the  verbal  and  literary  war,  whose  army  is  very  great,  you 
would  be  only  one  of  its  charlatans,  a  self-sickening  human 
pest. 

Over-populated  nations  is  also  a  cause  of  the  war,  say,  at 
these  times.  •  But  when  the  nations  are  disarmed  it  will  be 
discovered  that  this  earth  can  accommodate  more  than  twenty 
billions  of  people  and  be  more  comfortable  than  the  present 
two  billions.  The  true  destiny  of  the  waters  of  the  rivers  is 
not  the  sea,  but  to  turn  dry  land  into  fertile  ones,  then  we  have 
lakes,  and  enormous  mineral  and  food  that  can  be  had  out  of 
the  sea.  Women  will  not  need  to  raise  less  than  two  children 
each  before  the  population  of  the  earth  reaches  the  huge  figure. 

The  obstacle  between  men  and  international  peace  is  self- 
righteousness.  There  are  no  other  obstacles  worth  mention- 
ing. So,  that  men  can  save  themselves,  or  that  wars  can  end 
in  about  another  century  of  evolution,  through  the  usual  "prac- 
tical" methods  of  dealing  with  world  problems,  we  all  know 
it.  The  idea  is  to  realize  the  progress  of  a  century,  if  women 
will  permit,  much  earlier  than  the  end  of  the  present  genera- 
tion, merely  by  converting  the  money  and  labor  spent  for  war 
and  armed  peace,  into  educational  and  constructive  won.  - 
say,  me-rely  as  the  result  of  international  disarmament. 

I  am  not  bound  to  know  whether  women  whom  I  appealed 
to  will  step  forward,  nor  does  it  worry  me  in  the  least  whether 
both  themselves  and  women  of  the  common  people  don't.  But 
I  did  not  address  the  latter  yet,  whom  I  will  speak  as  follows 
in  case  the  former  fail : 

You  can  cause  the  officers  to  strike,  to  resign,  by  working 
along  the  lines  of  the  plan  and  other  necessary  paragraphs  of 
the  preface.  What  counts  is  a  declaration  signed  by  women 
related  to  officers,  as  many  signed  declarations  as  you  can 
have,  stating  that  they  will  love  their  men  also  at  wars  end. 

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Then  either  you  or  themselves  show  the  signed  list  to  the  offi- 
cers. Do  that  by  starting  in  any  area  where  you  can  corner 
up  the  whole  military  circle,  so  that  your  insistence  may  be 
felt  and  take  roots.  You  can  easily  understand  how  rapidly 
the  effect  will  travel  from  a  single  military  circle  to  all  others ; 
also  you  can  easily  understand  what  stirring  effect  will  pos- 
sess the  diplomats  from  such  move,  and  what  alternative  they 
have  to  take  to  solve  the  problem. 

Because  wars  or  preparedness  is  the  only  obstacle  between 
you  and  happiness,  anything  tried  to  removing  such  obstacle 
pays ;  if  you  must  alter  the  plan,  if  you  must  seek  the  assist- 
ance of  your  men,  if  you  must  resort  to  strategy,  it  will  be  for 
good,  it  will  be  better  than  wars.  However,  violence  and  hot 
words  must  not  be  employed,  because  I  am  perfectly  sure  they 
are  useless ;  they  are  indeed  an  hindrance  instead. 

When  the  soldiers  will  be  discharged  of  their  duty,  that's 
the  time  when  you  women  will  be  paid  for  the  work  of  end- 
ing wars.  Instead  of  depending  on  charity,  on  substitutes  for 
real  happiness,  and  hundreds  of  other  shameful  means  of  sus- 
tenance, you  will  have  a  man  whose  work  or  business  will  not 
weary  him  as  to  be  a  nuisance  to  you ;  a  man  that  can  really 
comfort  you  and  children  and  old  folks ;  a  man  that  can  pro- 
vide, that  can  cherish ;  a  man  manly,  that  can  make  life  inter- 
esting. Governments  will  be  governments.  Children  will  be 
well  educated  by  the  school  and  the  church,  and  will  not  be 
troubled  about  earning  their  living  before  they  are  grown  up. 

If  at  any  time  it  is  found  possible  to  arouse  the  well-to-do 
women  to  carry  out  the  plan  instead  of  the  other  rank,  it 
would  be  very  worth  while,  because  they  are  already  close 
acquaintances  in  militaryland  and  can  save  lots  of  trouble. 

What  fault  finders  should  know  is  that  I,  for  the  first,  do 
not  claim  my  plan  to  be  of  much  value  than  somebody  believes 
I  do.  What  I  have  shown  is  what  women  can  do  to  save  their 
men  and  end  discord,  only  when  conscience  strikes  or  when 
they  want  it,  and  not  that  they  must;  and  that  neither  I  said 

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that  women  are  already  tired  of  the  Universal  Drama  nor  I 
have  set  a  date  for  it;  also  I  asked  first  if  a  plan  is  wanted,  so 
that  time  may  not  be  lost  in  reading  everything  for  curiosity. 

I  greatly  regret  that  I  don't  know  of  another  plan  to  end 
wars  at  this  age,  thus  far,  without  the  delicate  task  of  bringing 
about  an  understanding  between  women  related  to  officers  and 
the  other,  whether  the  latter  are  women  of  the  common  people 
or  of  prominence — but  whether  women  will  choose  the  con- 
tinuation of  wars  on  account  of  that  we  will  never  know  until 
the  censors  leak. 

Be  convinced  that  the  keeping  dumb  or  the  tightening  of 
the  censors  on  the  part  of  some  people  is  not  a  fight  against 
me  or  my  idea  of  ending  wars,  but  is  a  fight  against  human 
welfare.  The  fact  that  I  do  not  entertain  in  my  mind  any- 
thing wrong  or  adverse  toward  the  spoken  of  people,  even  if 
they  will  continue  to  fight  against,  don't  count ;  and  the  fact 
that  after  the  end  of  wars  there  will  be  more  profits  and  easier 
to  make  a  living  through  the  commercialization  of  anything 
save  the  Universal  Drama  also  don't  count.  Certainly,  blood 
money  making  and  infamous  honor  seeking  are  both  lawful 
and  honorable  now  and  can't  stop  before  armaments  are  de- 
stroyed. 

If  you  are  a  man,  and  of  the  type  willing  to  hand  the  mat- 
ter over  to  save  himself,  give  this  to  a  woman ;  and  if  you  are 
of  self-pride  at  any  price,  try  a  small  sacrifice:  Keep  i*  until 
a  moment  of  surrendering  comes,  then  you  can  give  it  to  her 
indirectly,  she  will  not  know  where  it  comes  from,  and  thus 
you  can  escape  your  dread  of  humility.  But  whether  you  are 
a  man  or  a  woman  of  the  latter  type  mentioned,  fighting 
against  human  welfare  to  the  last  trench,  with  whatever  indif- 
ference you  may  be  able  to  pose,  is  the  meanest  thing  anybody 
could  do;  and  because  I  am  on  the  offensive,  I^suggest  that 
you  surrender  now,  not  exactly  on  my  account,  but  in  the  name 
of  what  you  yourself  love  most. 


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